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The executioner's song
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The executioner's song

Author: Norman Mailer
Publisher: New York : Vintage International, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage International edView all editions and formats
Summary: In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.
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Genre/Form: Biographical fiction.
Named Person: Gary Gilmore
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 0375700811 9780375700811 0606192174 9780606192170
OCLC Number: 39255816
Description: 1056 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Book one : Western voices -- pt. 1. Gary -- pt. 2. Nicole -- pt. 3. Gary and Nicole -- pt. 4. The gas station and the motel -- pt. 5. The shadows of the dream -- pt. 6. The trial of Gary M. Gilmore -- pt. 7. Death row -- Book two : Eastern voices -- pt. 1. In the reign of good King Boaz -- pt. 2. Exclusive rights -- pt. 3. The hunger strike -- pt. 4. The holiday season -- pt. 5. Pressures -- pt. 6. Into the light -- pt. 7. The fading of the heart.
Responsibility: Norman Mailer.
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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.

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